Published October, 2014
By Shuiping Jiang
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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After the discovery of differentiation and transcription factors for TH17 cells, it was clear that TH17 cells represent an independent subset of T cells with specific functions in eliminating certain extracellular pathogens, presumably not adequately handled by TH1 or TH2 cells.

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Published October, 2014
By Francesco Chiappelli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Osteoimmunology pertains to the study of the relationship between the bones, particularly the bone marrow, and the immune system.

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Published October, 2014
By Emanuela Corsini, Hendrik van Loveren, Henk Van Loveren and E Corsini
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH)
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The human immune system is constantly exposed to chemical contaminants, whether from food, water or air. Some chemicals directly elicit an immune response, while others indirectly activate or deactivate components within the immune system.

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Published September, 2014
By John C. Hall
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
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As the number of surviving immune suppressed patients continues its rapid increase, the skin manifestations have become increasingly important. AIDS patients and renal, heart, liver, bone marrow and lung transplant patients are surviving longer and are often experiencing skin side effects of immunity suppression.

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Published September, 2014
By I.W. Fong
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century
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This new volume in the series Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century is a novel book on the role of microbes in the pathogenesis of common and disabling non-infectious diseases.

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Published September, 2014
By Jeffrey Medin and Daniel Fowler
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Experimental and Applied Immunotherapy offers a roadmap to the creation of immunotherapies, which have prominent cancer-fighting potential. Readers will find discussions of T cell and non-T cell therapy, monoclonal antibody therapy, dendritic cell-based cancer vaccines, and more.

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Published September, 2014
By William Horsnell
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Also covered are how helminth infections alter the host's ability to control TB, HIV and malarial infections along with neglected bacterial infections, such as cholera, and how endemic helminth infections are likely to alter our ability to respond to life-saving vaccination strategies.

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Published September, 2014
By Salvatore Parisi, Giampiero Barbieri, Caterina Barone, Arpan Bhagat, Giorgia Caruso, Zachary Ryan Conley and Zachary Conley
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
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Published September, 2014
By Jean Langhorne
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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The death toll from malaria is still growing, with malaria-specific mortality in young African children estimated to have doubled during the last twenty years.

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Published September, 2014
By Michael B. A. Oldstone
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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